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The first two paragraphs need to contain the most important information. Start every paragraph with one or two information carrying words. Users focus on the first two words and if those don’t entice them, they are less likely to even read the third word. Use bolding to highlight important information in your text. Visitors are more likely to scan the bold text.

Visitors generally ignore everything that looks like an ad. Even if you present some of your real, and important, content in any fancy formatting, visitors are likely to ignore it because it looks like a promotion. Visitors’ eyes focus on text; they scan the page first in a horizontal movement, then move down a bit, and do another horizontal movement. Finally, they scan the left side in a vertical movement.

The cure? Make ads look like content. It’s borderline unethical, but it just plain works. Outside of that – use the 3 design elements that are the most effective eye catchers:

Get the Domain Sales Machine – I personally promise you will not regret it.

An easy way to create fresh, search engine friendly, 100% automated content for your website: RSS News Aggregator

Finally, I’d like to announce a new tool on Estibot.com: Web Host Comparison tool.

So- what were the three eye-catching elements?

1. Cleavage
2. Faces
3. Plain text

The source I used for this blog post is website usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s report on eye tracking usability studies. You will do yourself a favor if you read Nielsen’s stuff. It’s amazing how many webmasters ignore basic usability rules.

Mass Pay will result in only $1 of fees regardless of transaction size.

1. Create a text file using notepad or textedit that has the following information:
paypal@example.com    200.00    USD

The file is tab delimited, meaning there is a [TAB] between each of those columns. In other words
paypal@example.com[TAB]200.00[TAB]USD

You can change the currency if you with. Use EUR for euro, CAD for canadian dollars.

Save the file as masspay.txt – it has to be .txt.

2. Go to your Paypal account. Go to My Account.

3. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click on the link “Mass Pay”

4. Click on the link in the sidebar that says “Make a Mass Payment!”

5. Click “choose file” and select your file masspay.txt

6. Select recipient type: email address

7. Add optional subject line and comment

8. Click “continue”

9. Verify the information and click “send money”.

You will notice that Paypal will charge you $1 for the transaction. That’s the only fee incurred.

You’re done!

Share this tip and link to this post: Just copy-paste the following link to your website:

<a href=”http://estibot.com/blog/2008/12/14/how-to-make-a-mass-payment-paypal-mass-pay-in-order-to-avoid-paypal-fees/”>How to Make a Paypal Mass Payment</a>

Here is my original newsletter regarding this

Once in a while something comes up that may just change the way you think:

The Domain Sales Machine

As long as I have been domaining, I’ve found that the most difficult part is making those sales. WIth Estibot and other tools, it’s not that hard to find good generic keyword domains, but it’s hard to keep up a sufficient monthly revenue from domain sales. I have made some individual nice sales, but they are few and far between and usually I can’t count on making enough sales to maintain a steady income stream.

From the emails I get from Estibot members, I know that many of you struggle with this too. You have these nice names, but no one seems interested in buying them. I’ve been there.

Another big question is, how to spot the really good names? What is it in a domain name that makes it sell?

Some people seem to succeed in this game better than others. A colleague in the domain name industry, named Mickie Kennedy, got into the game rather late, just like me. But the difference between us is that in the past 3 years or so, he’s made $2.5 million profit from his domain name sales. That’s right, $2.5 million dollars, and that’s a confirmed fact.

And here’s the thing…he doesn’t own any single-word dotcoms. He has made most of his money from hand registered domain names and cheap expired domain auction wins. He specializes in bulk sales and keeps a low, attractive price tag on his domain names. He doesn’t cold call or do any other unpleasant salesman work. He’s got his own system for selling domain names. Anyone who’s seen him work and make sales has come out not only amazed but a lot smarter.

The good news is, he’s just released an e-course in which he reveals his system completely, taking the subscriber through the necessary steps to set up an effective system for selling domains. It’s recommended by many industry professionals, including Matt Rosebrook,
SEDO Domain Broker, and features among other things weekly exclusive available domain name lists produced by my collaborator and friend Bill Eisenmann (aka NameClerk), of AvailableDomainNames.com fame.

Bill has previously been privy to some parts of Mickie’s system, and Bill says, “I spoke with him last year and was blown away with how he works. He has a system he uses that maximizes domain sales and unloads the bulk of his domains before they near their expiration date. He only gave me bits and pieces of his system but I adopted much of it to my current sales process. The result: thousands of dollars from domains I normally would just let expire.”

Mickie calls it the Domain Sales Machine. It’s not magic, but it’s damned smart, and there is a wealth of important information and secrets in his e-course. I have bought a subscription for myself, and I recommend it to Estibot members. If you’re serious about domaining, and want to make actual money instead of letting your domain portfolio just sit there and lose money, maybe it’s time to learn from those who have proven themselves in the industry. I know I will personally pay very close attention to what Mickie has to say, and hope that it will transform my domain portfolio into a money making machine.

I’m happy to say that Estibot will also be featured in the e-course, as one of the tools for finding domain names that sell.

Click here to visit his site: DomainSalesMachine.com

Full disclosure: The links on this page are affiliate links, and I do get credit if you purchase his system. I would not promote it to my subscribers if I did not believe in it. I believe his e-course has real value to my members, and will pay itself back many many times. If you purchase it through these links, you will also support Estibot, for which I am grateful.

Cheers,
-Esa